The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-09-09

VI pIahuy sWAitoWeu IS 1ncalcul0blc.
Incaleulable also the number Of
'sdrunksn met with after dark on the
streets. For these there are special
provisions. Each of the posts in the
city and on the rock il provided with q
kind of sentry-box. and when a red
coat too much under the influence OF
drink passes in sight Of one of these
posts the officer or sub-afiicer calls two
of his men. who lay hold OF kim with
out violence and guide his staggering
steps to the box where he is allowed N
sleep of the fumes of his brandy untii
morning. The next day there are dis
tributed some fines and sentences In
the guard-house. and then every thing
resumes its usual course. Brandy Is
the weakness of the English. and II
greatly increases the mortality of the
garrison. All that succumb die Of the
same disease. kind of cerebral fever
that the English call rock fever. but
that the natives correctly call brandy
fever
Every thing on this rock partakes Of
the military. One is awakened by the
sound of cannon each morning a. soon
as the rising of the sun gives the signal
for the opening of the greet gate. The
same cannon at sunset signals its clos.
ing. These two firings OF gun are
always regular, but they are net the
only ones that are heard in the course
of a day or night, for everything that
happens out of The usual course,
~k.s.s Il n. Il Il.
rock. is signaled by cannon. This
cannon. which became inevitably
companion of the existence OF every
one living on the rock. is in n battery
at the summit of the rock about the
middle of its length, at the foot of
mast from which dies signal flag thai
whenever the gun is fired. tells what il
is fired for. The most frequently it is
TO warn the Spanish coast-guard out OF
English waters. Sometimes it Is a fire
the signal Indicates its location.
Precautiof are so well taken.
and the pumps 50 expeditiousls
handled. that fire Is very speedily
extinguished. Sometimes it is the
rock itself that burns. Though il is
bare, so to speak. a vegetation grows
in the spring that is soon parched BIZ
the sun. for from April 10 November il
never rains in Gibraltar Onee or twice
during the summer this growth takes
lire-probably through the carelessaess
of smokers When this occurs the ex-
citemsnt Is great. for the rock Is seat
tered over with powder magazines. and
water in large quantities. except at the
base of the rock. is hard TO get The
entire garrison is sometimes employed
in fighting these fires for forty-eighi
hours.
Gibraltar, besides its garrison OF
I. 900. has 5000 inhabitants. For a
fortress of such small extent this
is embarrassing. The
civilians are everywhere sacrificed to
the military. In the village and on the
rock the best places are occupied by
barracks. Every thing that serve the
needs of defense. the health and COM
fort Of the troops, is admirably looked
after. From top to bottom the rock is
urrowed with excellent roads. and in
the city the streets are marvellous
" cleaned and well kept. The
system is perfect. and gas
and water abound everywhere. But
the civil population is shut up in very
restricted space. most of the houses are
novels. whose existence is subject Go
the caprice of the military, for, above
all, nothing must interfere with the
firing of the batteries Not a new
building has been constructed for
twenty years. for all the available land
was built on long ago. These fifteen
thousand inhabitants. born ON the rock
md called by the English s'rock scor-
pions,' are, according to law, subjects
of the British Government, as born on
English soil. They have the right to
live where they were born. No one
can expel them. but everything is done
to fetter the development of the civil
and. above all, to prevent
the formation of a foreign colony. A
foreigner can enter Gibraltar only with
"A permit valid for twenty-four hours
At the holders request it may be ex-
tended three days, and he can
not remain longer than that time
without reliable guarantor
known to the military authorities
With such a guaraator his permit may
be renewed every three months. the
guarantor being liable to fine of five
francs and three months inn
prisonment if the person for whom he
has vouched violates any of the rules
on foreigners. However. for
eigners are numerous, for nearly all
the servants employed at Gibraltar are
from Spain. They are not allowed to
bear any offspring on the rock. and
woman with child is heartlessly ex-
peeled. A male inhabitant of tho rock
may marry foreign woman. who
thus acquires the right to I've there
but British woman that marries
foreigner is expelled with her husband
the day of her marriage. When this
law was first put into force there were
a number of foreigners at Gibraltar who
had been allowed to live there without
permit for many years. All of them
had to submit TO the rule requiring a
permit every three months, and all
who were married to a woman that
within the preceding three months had
given birth to child, living or dead,
were expelled.
The interior spectacle Of the city Of
Gibralser is lacking in neither gaiety
nor animation. In the evening the
whole population is in the streets.
The Moors with their white Arab an
cloaks, their red vests. their puffed
pantaloons, their barn feet in Turkish
slippers. jostle the redcoats; the tur-
bans mingle with tho white cork hats
of the English. In the midst of this
crowd circulate English cavaliers,